How to Overcome a Scarcity Mindset

What's the vision you have for what you'd love to create in your business, in your personal growth and in all areas of your life? And if you're being honest with yourself, what do you believe is the thing that is holding you back? What's good? I'm Rob Cressy. And what I want to do is help you create from possibility, not scarcity, in how you can bring your vision to life. And what I want to do is share some tips that have helped me on my journey in bringing my vision to life.

Number one, so let's anchor in our vision of what is possible. How does that make you feel when you think about your vision for your business, for your personal growth, all areas of your life? How does that make you feel? For me, it's exciting. It's inspired. It's also kind of scary, overwhelming and uncertain. And why in the world is that?

Well, you have that growth mindset. You're about that life. You want to be better. You want to learn. You're self-aware, so you know both your strengths and your weaknesses. You also know how much potential you have inside of you. You know you have that vision of what is possible. You can feel that inside of you. You're also willing to take action and make it happen. So that's where we're starting from in bringing our vision to life.

But sometimes it feels like something is missing, just a little bit off, or you may even say to yourself, why is this not happening faster? Well, welcome to the last 15 years of my life and my business. And so often this is about what you are not believing, the lies, the stories you're telling yourself, the fear, the judgment, the overwhelm, the self-limiting belief.

And what I've learned on this journey about bringing your vision to life is so much of this is about two things, your perspective and your language. And there's really three areas for this. Number one, how you see the world. Number two, what you are telling yourself. And then number three, what you are consuming. So let's break each of these things down, because I believe this clarity, it helped me, it can help you.

So in bringing your vision to life, what really helps is the lens that you create for yourself. And one of the quotes that absolutely changed my life and my business was live by design, not by default. And when you live by design and you're self-aware, and you've got that growth mindset, you know everything is in your control. It is up to you. You get to design the life that you want.

It's why myself and so many others in our community, we are about that holistic success, filling up all the buckets of our life, where we have that business excellence as well as that personal fulfillment at the same time. And if you believe that is possible for yourself, that is the lens in which you can show up every single day with. Because it's very easy to fall into a scarcity mindset with this, where I don't have enough time or I'm overwhelmed, and so often that creates a lot of excuses for yourself, but it really doesn't serve you at all when you're someone who lives by design.

And part of this is growth mindset 101. If you read Carol Dweck's book Mindset, what it really says is you're never trapped in the position where you are right now. I can always find a way over, under, around, through. I can make this position better. And this is a very important lens for the world. And I know we're about this life, but when you create this perspective of how you see it, then you're like, okay, well, it would probably serve me to come from abundance, to come from possibility instead of scarcity.

Even if in my body and in my mind, I can feel that anxiety. I can feel that stress. I can feel that overwhelm. God knows as entrepreneurs and high performers, we literally live in this. It's why get comfortable being uncomfortable is one of my mantras, of getting used to the discomfort that you can feel, but it's a good thing.

And one of the terms that I love that I learned is blissful dissatisfaction. We can both be happy and dissatisfied at the same time. And the key in all of this, of course, is what is that percentage of bliss versus dissatisfaction? Really, you want this thing to be about 95% bliss, 5% dissatisfaction. And that 5% dissatisfaction is you know the potential inside of yourself. And you know you can grow, you know you can get better. And the key is of course not to allow that 5% dissatisfaction to become 75% of the story that you're telling yourself.

And when you create this lens of the world for yourself, of abundance, of positivity, of magnetism where like attracts like in all of these things. And this is such a key for me and everything I've ever created in my life. And it is so simple and it is such a superpower, but it's just our ability to show up every single day and look at things from a positive lens to create that magnetism, that optimism, that inspiration. Oh, but Rob, it's different for me. No, it's really just a choice of the way that you wake up or that you see things every single day.

Of course this doesn't mean that every day's puppy dogs and rainbows or that bad things don't happen. They do, but that's why we work on our mindset in our personal growth, to have that toolbox as a creator for how to deal with situations when dot, dot, dot. Because we are intentional about every single aspect of our lives and things don't happen to us. They happen for us.

So now you're rolling up in the day and you're like, boom, today's going to be a great day. Things are happening for me. You know what? I'm going to go after my vision. I'm going to create my vision. And when you have this belief and this certainty in the story that you're telling yourself, then you're more likely to take the actions of the person that are going to get you closer to what it is that you want. And this becomes the perspective that you have for your life.

And I saw a post yesterday. It was actually a LinkedIn one. That was one of those automated ones like, Hey, would you love to contribute to this thing? And it talked about what do you do when you feel overwhelmed with work? And my response back to it was all of this is in the story of what you're saying right now. If you're overwhelmed by work, you're the one who created that. That's why, for example, I create a get to do list, not a to do list. Once again, lifestyle design 101. So now we get to do all of these things.

These are small subtle inches, because high performance and bringing your vision to life is oftentimes just a series of micro of 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1. These series of things, these mindsets, these habits, routines, these ways of being that ultimately become your lens in the world and how you show up.

And none of this costs any money. And that's the thing that both blows my mind is what the superpower is, that it's just a choice. Peace is just a choice. Positivity is just a choice. Your ability to wake up every single day and say today's going to be a great day. All of these things are just a conscious choice. Like, huh? So I can come from this lens of the world.

So my encouragement for you right now, and this is an action item. What's your lens of the world? How do you see the world? Can you write it down? Maybe it's just keywords, maybe it's sentences. Maybe you build out an entire coaching program or a course or you do a LinkedIn live on something like this. But be very intentional about this. Because once you do, this will open up new seeds of possibility. Because when we can come from possibility and not scarcity, we're more likely to create more of what we want in our life.

Which gets us to number two. What you are telling yourself. And when I think back on my journey and in my life of the things that have had the biggest impact in my entire life, without a doubt, it is all around designing the story that you tell yourself. Because God knows we all live inside our heads all day. We are the biggest champions for ourselves. We also know every single button that we can push.

It's going to feel hot, anxiety, fear, judgment, all of the things, the lies that we tell ourselves. No one is better at lying to ourselves or creating excuses than we are for ourselves. So now that we know that, that we can both be our biggest champion as well as our biggest challenger or enemy. And I responded to a post earlier today that said, when somebody asks me, uh, who's your competition? I was like, the only competition I have is myself. I'm the one who gets in the way of everything. So maybe you feel the same way.

Therefore, our ability to design the story that we tell ourselves. And there's so many things in my life, and I coach and I teach this around with my clients, that are foundational, and it is the power of intention, the power of awareness and the power of consistency. So when you're designing the story that you tell yourself, you're like, all right, I'm setting the intention that I want to be my best, to do what I love and show up powerfully.

Because for me, there's three things that I love to show up and come from every single day in all that I do. Freedom, love and power. Creating freedom in all areas of my life, coming from love in all I do and radiating it. It's why the first thing I speak every single morning, I am infinite love. And I think about loving my wife and my son and getting the ability to create and help people every single day. And I'm just sitting here. I'm just radiating this love. And of course, all of this is designed around showing up powerfully. So our ability to consciously do so.

And for me, the key in all of this and why I can teach this, one, because I both live this, but number two, because this is a system and a process that you can design for yourself. So the story that you're telling yourself will create your actions, your actions will create your results. Therefore, if we want to start with our vision at the end, let's reverse engineer it. And most people are like, Oh, what are all the things that I need to do? No, who do you get to be? What is the story that you are telling yourself that creates those actions that creates those results in that vision?

And when you audit the language of what you say to yourself, whether it comes out of your mouth or in your mind, the game changer of all game changers, because this is how you come from possibility, not from scarcity. Because you know, oftentimes we're going to default to scarcity. Therefore I want to design in first thing in the morning every single day that positivity, that possibility, that unlimited nature to all that I do.

And guess what? This can be also simple. That's why I talk about habits, routines, mindsets, because every single day in the morning I have a consistency practice to my morning routine, aka my boot sequence, for how I tell myself the story of who I am so that I show up with freedom, love and power every single day. And this is just like one sliver of the coaching and the creating that I do. This is something that resonates with you, I would love to have a powerful conversation when you hit me up at Rob Cressy. Let's talk about how we can bring that vision to life for you.

Because number three, the last part of this is what you are consuming. And as Tim Grover says in the book Relentless, everything's labeled number one, since it's all the most important. And certainly this is the thing. And I learned this early on in my entrepreneurial journey. Audit your inputs. Good in, good out. Garbage in, garbage out. Of course, we all know this, but it's very easy to not do. Because another quote that I love, comfortable is always comfortable. So it's very easy to not do these things because it's actually easy to be like, I'm not going to do it.

But when you consume things intentionally by design, this creates your lens and your filter of the world. And the more that you consume this, like attracts like. So you listening or watching right now, we're the average of the five people we spend the most amount of time with and the things that we're talking about and the things that we are consuming.

And to me, this is why coaching and community is so powerful. What are the conversations that you want to be having more of? Whether you're on the giving or the receiving end of. Because on the giving side, you can give something to someone and it's going to come right back to you. And on the receiving end, for example, if you want to grow your business, hey, let's have more conversations around how you can have better marketing, use AI, content creation, you name it. You want to work on your personal growth? Hey, am I involved in those conversations around personal growth? Because the more that you do that, the more inspired that you be, the more that you will live in those worlds.

And for me, this is such a simple superpower. And it's why I pay to work with the best coaches in the world. It's why I'm part of the best communities. It's why I started my own community with Unlimited. And so often when you're a part of these communities and programs, what you'll hear, and I experienced this myself, is you're like, man, I just want to keep living in this world. These people have become my friends. They become my partners. Some of them are clients. Some of them I'm paying them. But most of all, we're all learning together. We're on this shared experience and like attracts like. So you're going to create more of this in your life.

So once again, we go back to our vision of what is possible and the way that we remove scarcity from our life, aside from lifestyle design and designing the story we're telling ourselves in our language, is who are we around? Who are we consuming? What are the conversations we are intentionally having more of? And all of these things are entirely in our control. And it's why so much of this is exciting and is inspiring. And at the same time, it can feel overwhelming because it's like holy smokes, there is so much going on.

And there's actually two different levels of overwhelm. There's overwhelm from, oh my God, my to-do list is so big and I can just never get away from it and it's scarcity. It's a lack where you never have enough time. Versus anyone who's ever joined a program or community where you get access to new videos or new calls or new tools and courses and you're like, oh my God, I am so excited about everything right now. I'm overwhelmed because I want to get to my vision right now.

And that's when you know you're cooking with gas, where you've flipped overwhelm from the negative to the I'm overwhelmed by how much goodness is here. Now you're living in that world. And that's the world that we want to strategically build, because now we say, all right, there's a lot that I'm cooking on here. Let's do this by design and make that progress.

So these are all tips that have helped me on my journey. And one of my goals is to help 10 million people. And as part of it, I'm really leaning more into sharing my truth, sharing my experience and not overthinking any of it and more sharing from my heart, because I'm a big believer in if you have something inside of you that can help even one person, then it's your duty to share it with the world. And in doing so, man, I'm a big believer that good things are going to happen both for me as well as for you.

And I would love to hear from you as it relates to bringing your vision to life in your business, in your personal growth, in all areas of your life. How's that going right now? Where are you feeling scarcity? Where are you feeling alive by the possibility? I would love to hear from you if there's something that you're challenged by. Hit me up at Rob Cressy. Would love to have a powerful conversation.

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